Professor Steve Stick is the Northern Star Professor of Children’s Respiratory Health Research at Telethon Kids Institute. Professor Stick is a career clinician and clinical researcher, holds a NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science. Prof Stick was head of the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children from 1998-2016. In 2015 he was awarded the Richard Talamo Distinguished Clinical Achievement Award, the highest research award of the US Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Prof Stick has had continuous research funding from the NHMRC since 1997 and currently holds over $14m in competitive research funding from national and international sources. His research focus has been the earliest manifestations of chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and cystic fibrosis and developing interventions to prevent long term lung damage.